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sPEcxrma-TION formingpsfcrfatent Nfa'saeeo, daad octobev 5,1880.

Application lcd -April 9, 1878.

To all whom, 'it may concern: l

Be it known that l, Burnet. BURTON, ot' Brooklyn, in the countyot"Ki11gs and State of New York,havc invented anew and usefulimprovement-in lilagazine-Guns, ot which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists in the apl'ilication of a hopper-magazine attached`to the side ol' the receiver of a gun, and a magazine under the barrel,and I a carrier which serves to convey the cartridges automatically fromboth magi azines to the barrel, and a cutoff which holds the cartridgesin the magazine under the bar rel in reserve while the hopper magazineis being used, and in the use ol a bolt working longitiulinall5l in thereceiver which operates the carrier, and a salety-pin on the trigger, in

spiral vsprings for keepingI the scar-bolt up in place and the triggerpressed down, so as to be able to use the arm as abreech-leader.

.lhe object ot'iny invention is to provide an arm thatis capable ofcontaining the greatest possible number of charges that can he readilycarried in the hands of man, and of the largest charges a man is capableet' iiring from the shoulder, and to provide for a reserve ol" the`loaded magazine under the barrel for emergencies, while thcotherhopperanagazine may be in use, and to provide against the prematuredischarge ot' the arm, to load quickly, so as to keep up a constant andrapid lire.

p l' attain those objects bythe mechanism illustra-ted in theaccompanying drawings; and by reference to my former patents and toother magazine-guns, the bolts in use in my former patents, and othersimilar bolts used for closing and opening tliebreech ot' breech-loadingand magazine-guns, this mechanism ina-r be readily understood.

Figure 1 isalongitudinal vertical section of the arm at the breech. Fig.2 is a side view of the same, showing the hopper and the feed-box in thehopper. Fig. 3 is a vertical crosssection eut through the receiver., andhopper and carrier, with the cartridges in the hopper.

' lhe View of the b'olt is omitted in order more clearly to showtheother working parts of the arm. i p

Similar letters referto similar partsthroughout the several views.

rlhe receiver C is made to contain the bolt, and the carrier O is madeto work in a box.,`c, in the under side of the receiver. Thebarrel usualav, and tht` magazine l is placed under the barrel in the usual way. `vp The carrier O is made andoperated in a man-y ner already described inmypatentof1873,

in so t'ar as the.ent-oti` is concerned. A set--y screw, It, is placedin the rear end of the gate U. On the front end ot the gate O a tooth,d, extends up and past the. upper end ol' the- `tooth to pass. The toothis lowered or raised' by the screw ll.. When the tooth is raised itprojects up in the track oi' the cartridges as they.passfrom themagazine l, and stops the screw lli being sntlicient to raise or lowerthe tooth r1. Y p l rEhe hopper l1 may be made cfany desired shapeordimensions and secured to thefreor dovetailed onto the receiver, andcartridges may be used by iilling the hopper H and closing` the lid ll",which is kept closed b v a spring or catch and hinged to the hopper, asshown in Figs. 2 and 3. an incline plane, C', in the bottom of thehopper, and onto the carrier 0, and when the bolt is drawn back itforces back the upper arm, G, ot the carrier. Y The carrier O, rising,lifts chamber B of the barrel. The forward movement ot' the bolt shovesthe cartridge into the barrel-chamber, and the bolt also forces forwardthe arm G- oi'l thecarrier, lowerin g the carthe hopper H. fhen thecarrier rises it shovcs the cartridge in the opening C back into thehopper Il and prevents the cartridge in H from interfering with thecartridge on the cartridges cut-oli' 1in ger d.

safety when loaded I make use ot the scar-bolt .'L, around which l put aspiral spring, a. The

are released by' lowering the `1 B is screwed in the end ot' thereceiver in the 55 and does not require describing; here, except 6ocarrier O,in which an openingl is made forthe there from feeding ontothe carriei-O, a turn ofl'7o ceiver C in anydesirable manner by screwsb,

The cartridres K )ass down `8o up a cartridge in a direction i'orentering the S 5 the carrier and obstructing the nioiements of thecarrier. rllhe carrler feeds from the mag` azine l, the same as from thehopper H, when` rier O down to receive a fresh cartridge from 9c j inorder to provide for carrying the aria in too for the forward lend ofthetrigger to enter, the end of the trigger being made fiat to work in themortisc, and pivoted to the scar-bolt. ,An oblong slot is also made inthe scar-bolt, so as to allow the pivot to shift its position.

In rear of the pivot ou which the trigger is hinged there is pivoted tothe trigger a safetypin, L', around which a spiral spring, placed, andrests on the trigger below and against the receiver above. uWhen thelbolt is withdrawn, and at any time before the bolt is secured in place,the upper end ofthe pin L', in case the trigger is pulled, pressesagainst the breech bolt and prevents the trigger from acting on thescar-bolt; but as soonI as the bolt is secured in place in the receivera hole iliade purposelyn the bolt is broughtopposite the pin L', whichpermits the end of' the pin to enter thehole in the bolt and the triggerto bepulled, and at the saine time the scar-bolt is lowered and the armfired.

[n order 'that the pin L may lower and admit ofthe bolt being withdrawn,the spring u, pressing the trigger' down behind the slot in the lowerend ot' the scar-bolt, permitsvthe forward part of the trigger to rise.As soon as the bolt isdrawn back the seaebolt is free to rise, whenthespiral spring n forces-it up Through the lower v end of theisear-bolta slot or mortise is made in position in front of the firing-pin, andwhenv the bolt isclosed thel iring-pin is held back until the trigger'isagain pulled and the firing- 4o4 pin released and propelled forward bythef` mainspring to deliver the blowr to ignite the charge.

1. In ahiagazine-gun, ,the combination of a longitudinally-reci procating breech-bolt, a ver` tieall y reciprocating eartridgecarrier operatedby the breech-bolt, and lever used for operating the bolt, and ahopper-magazine which retains the'cartridges parallel with each otherand permits them to feed singly upon the carrier, asset forth.

2. In a magazine-gun, the combination 0f a tains the cartridges parallelwith each other-l,

and feeds them upon the carrier sin gl'y,v a magazine in the front stockfeeding backward, and a eut-ofi for said magazine in the front-stock,substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with thclongitudinallyreciprocating bolt andfiring-pin of a breechloading gun,ot' the trigger, thespring-pinconnected to the trigger i'orwardof its pivot, and the safety-pinconnected tio the` trigger; as described, and bearing against the boltat all times save when the latter is locked, substantially as set forth.

Y BETHEL BUltlON. Witnesses: f F. B. BROCK,

Guo. F. GRAHAM.

